Chris' Christian Blog

June 22, 2020

Today's prompt comes from the star Samberine Everose

The sample is

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a mother knows best  (E) being a mother can be for everyone #2190295 by Samberine Everose

The prompt: Do you think a mother knows best?

Captain's blog:

I think a mommy knows best but I make a distinction between a mommy and a mother. Any woman physically capable can get pregnant. Pregnancy however does not necessarily make a mother. What makes a mother is love and nurture. A lot of women get pregnant and have a child and then neglect it. Worse yet they get pregnant and abort the child before it has a chance. Children need love and care. Some women just are not capable of giving that love and care just as some men are not capable. Some men want to have all the fun of making babies but do not want to care for them. There are deadbeat fathers and dead beat mothers. Neither are parents.

"Prompt: "People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." Anton Chekhov
Does your mood determine whether or not you notice the weather? Does the weather have an effect on your mood?"

I don't know that my mood so much determines whether I notice the weather or not, but I do know the weather affects my mood. I have seasonal affective disorder. I need a certain amount of sunshine to function at one hundred percent effectiveness. If I don't get enough sunlight I can become lethargic and despondent. I get depressed. My energy drains quickly and my mood is foul. I also prefer seeing everything green with blue skies as opposed to the drab of winter. Summer is definitely my favorite season as long as I have air conditioning. Even when I didn't though I preferred summer because I respond much better to it.

There is something you can do for seasonal affective disorder. Large quantities of vitamin D3 have proven effective to combat it along with exposure to sunshine or a lightbox. The lightbox has to be built to radiate a certain amount of lumens and you stand in front of it for twenty minutes per day. Some people exercise in front of it. The vitamin D3 is something I take. I usually take about 5,000 units per day but you can take much more. Your body will expose of the excess.

"Prompt: Taking off from the saying, ““you only get one chance to make a first impression” logic, why, do you think, a first impression, a first line in an article, or the first paragraph of chapter in a book can be the most important?"

I would say the first page is the most important. I will usually read about a page before I determine if I am going to read any further. As a tip though, I have had several editors and agents tell me that they will read for about 30 seconds before determining if they are going to read farther. With that in mind, your introduction needs to really make a splash. This is why a lot of publishers put an excerpt from the climax of a book on a page that comes even before the introduction. They want to hook you and they know they have about 30 seconds to do so.